Marcus Vorwaller
Director Of Engineering at Avalara
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMarcus Vorwaller is a Director of Engineering in Seattle with 18 years of hands-on experience building full-stack web products and leading teams at Avalara. He blends a strong design background with deep technical skills across Ruby on Rails, Node.js, React/Flux, HTML5/CSS and Linux server management, often owning both UX decisions and backend architecture. Marcus has a track record of shipping complex SaaS systems and developer-facing tax filing tools, and previously led major rewrites and data-versioning features at Trakstar. He’s comfortable moving between code, product and marketing needs—having built internal dashboards and marketing automation tools that turned data into actionable KPIs. Outside core development, he founded a large online community in the longboarding space, showing entrepreneurial instincts and a knack for growing user engagement.
17 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors Multimedia Design. Minors in Art & Spanish, Bachelors Multimedia Design. Minors in Art & Spanish at Southern Virginia University
Spanish, French
Github Skills (109)
ruby-sdk10
avalara10
api10
sdk10
netsuite10
android10
tax10
sales-tax10
tax-rate10
react10
javascript9
rest9
sql9
soap-client9
jsonb9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
marcus/property-management
Jun 2008 - Nov 2009
Contributions:71 commits in 1 year 5 months
marcus/Instabrary
Sep 2009 - Mar 2010
Contributions:39 commits in 6 months
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